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Ohio Jewish chronicle. (Columbus, Ohio), 1977-12-15

Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1977-12-15, page 01

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VOL. 55 NO. 51
DECEMBER 15,1977-TEVET5
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Supreme Court Rules Against Funds For Jewish Day Schools
By David Friedman' NEW YORK, (JTA) —The financially hard-pressed Jewish day schools in New York will not receive a hoped-for reimbursement of about $1 million from the state as a result of a ruling .j by the U.S. Supreme Court Dec. 6. The court, in a 6-3 de¬ cision ruled that a 1972 New York law that provided about $11 million to reim¬ burse parochial schools for the cost of state-mandated record-keeping and testing I services is unconstitutional. The court said the law was unconstitutional because "it will of necessity either have the primary effect of aiding religion ,. . or will result in excessive state involvement in religious affairs." Rabbi Bernard Goldenberg, asso¬ ciate director of Torah Umesorah, the National Society for Hebrew Day Schools, told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency the de¬ cision was a "bit of a blow" to the Jewish day schools. He said he could see "nothing religious" about keeping at¬ tendance records or ad- • ministration tests required by the state. Goldenberg said the day schools will now have to provide, the funds needed to carry out the tests and record-keeping required by the state, leaving less money, for scholarships lor children from poor families , and putting more of a finan¬ cial burden on'the parents of students. He noted one yeshiva in Queens closed re¬ cently _and others are having severe financial trouble.
The 1972 law that was struck down was passed by the New York State Legisla¬ ture after a federal District .Court in 1972 declared uncon¬ stitutional a 1970 law provid¬ ing $28 million a year to parochial and private schools to cover record¬ keeping and testing, ex¬ penses. The district court barred payments, for the second- half of the 1971-72 school year. But the State Legislature adopted a law which permitted the schools to file claims for the second payment thus insuring its availability until the federal court decision was appealed and^decided. Two dissenters Chief justice Warren Burger , and Associate Justice William H. Rehnquist, said 4.. they believed that a decision by the Supreme Court in 1973 upholding the right of Penn¬ sylvania to make similar payments to private schools until the court had acted on the constitutionality af-the" enabling legislation should', have applied in the New : York case. Associate Justice
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I
Egyptian Ambassador Addresses Jewish Audience On Mid-East
Hanukah Party Held For Immigrants
The New Americans Committee of Jewish Family Service sponsored a Hanukkah party for Soviet immi¬ grant families on .Sunday, Dec. 4. The party was planned by Mrs. Barry (Hyah) Kaufman, Mrs. Henry (Leslie) Rogosih, and Mrs. Samuel (Susan) Portman who chairs the JFS New American Committee.
The major focus of the party was teaching about HanukkahV Cantor' Naftaly'"Lmkovslty" of" Agudas' Achim Synagogue explained the use of the Chanukiah and chanted the blessings. Rivkah Ziskind explained the story of Hanukkah and related other customs such as the dreidl. The program ended with the serving of refreshments, including latkes.
The party was held at The Jewish Center which do¬ nated their facilities. The JFS New-Americans refugee resettlement program is financied by the Columbus Jewish Federation,
Israel Expected To Present Substantial Proposals At Meet
TEL AVIV, (JTA) - Israeli journalists in Cairo reported Dec. 8 that the Egyptians expect Israel to come up with substantive proposals for discussion at the Cairo conference open¬ ing this week so that agree¬ ments can'be achieved there to be formalized later at a Geneva conference. In¬ formed Egyptian sources have indicated that the Israeli delegation is ex: pected to bring detailed maps along with- their pro¬ posals. Yousouf el-Siba, edi¬ tor of the semi-official Egyp¬ tian daily Al Aharm, told the Maariv correspondent that Israel and Egypt, should go
to Geneva "only to sign what was agreed before. "n)uier Egyptian sources agreed that it would be best if all outstanding problems were resolved before going to Geneva. There may be a similar .view'among Israeli officials, Defense Minister Ezer Weizman is expected to submit a compendium of 'Israel's' * security - .require-,
ments and a list of options and alternatives at the next Cabinet meeting. These are intended to form the basis of compromises that Israel will- offer at the Cairo talks.
Several Defense Ministry teams haye been working on the security aspects of a pos-. sible peace settlement not only with Egypt but as they apply to Israel's other neigh¬ bors. These include freedom of navigation in interna¬ tional waters, the future of Sharm el-Sheikh, the ap¬ proaches to the ' Raffah salient, Israel's presence on the West Bank and the em¬ placement of early warning systems. It was learned that some of Weizman's ideas grew out of the talks he had with President Anwar Sadat and his aides during their visit to Jerusalem Nov. 20- 21. Weizman himself has re¬ mained silent oaall defense and foreign affairs policies. Premier Menachem Begin has asked all of his ministers to refrain from', any^ public \\\\\ (C9ntinui?d;on PAQ^«5)
By David Friedman (Copyright, 1977, JTA, Inc.)
NEW YORK, (JTA) - Ashraf Ghorbal, the Egyp¬ tian Ambassador to , the United States, went before an audience of Jewish con¬ gregational and rabbinic leaders Dec. 7 and told them that peace in the Middle East requires security not only for Israel but for the Arab states too. He said Israeli withdrawal from the occupied territories and the creation of a Palestinian state there is necessary for Arab security. Ghorbal made his statement in a speech before the board of directors of the Synagogue Council of America (SCA) at the Carnegie Endowment Center for Peace, the first time he or any other Arab ambassador had spoken be¬ fore an American Jewish group. '
Rabbi Henry Siegman, the SCA's executive vice-presi¬ dent who introduced the 4-EJXB-iiaR^envoy.. said he jiad been friendswith many other American Jews, including Rabbi Alexander Schindler, .chairman of the Conference of Presidents of. Major American Jewish Organiza¬ tions. The Egyptian Ambas¬ sador said that he met with American Jewish leaders and was appearing before the SCA not to turn them against Israel but because he felt that as Americans and Jews they were im¬ portant leaders of public opinion and he wanted them to understand the Arab posi¬ tion in order to help promote peace in the Mideast.
Ghorbal received standing ovations from the more than 100 persons that jammed the meeting room when he ent¬ ered, when he was intro¬ duced and when he finished his speech. He was also warmly applauded when he began to speak again after he was interrupted toward the close of his address by two youths shouting "Sadat is a Nazi. Sadat is a fraud." One of the two, Victor Van- cier, of New York, almost reached the podium before he and his companion, Randy Medoff, of Hartsdale, N.Y., were ejected. The two, who said they belonged to a recently formed ad hoc group called Jewish Com¬ mittee of Concern, waited outside for Ghorbal to leave to again shout at him. Asked by a reporter for his reac¬ tion, Ghorbal commented, "No one has a monopoly on extremists.", In continuing his talk after the two were ^ejected, Ghorbal depar^d.
from his text to say "If I touched the sensitivities of some, I hope it is understood my coming here is meant to stretch a hand of peace and' not a hand of war."
The dimiriutive*52-year-old Ambassador said that Egyp¬ tian President Anwar Sadat does not need any defense. "We seek' not to destroy Israel, we are at odds with our. Arab brothers because we seek peace with Israel," he declared. He said the is¬ sue is not politics "but to educate people to live -in peace and harmony." Ghor¬ bal said that when former Israeli Premier Golda Meir told Sadat she wants to see peace in her lifetime she spoke "for all in the Middle East who haveknown war." Ghorbal noted that in 1945 he took a trip by train and bus' from Egypt to Lebanon and Syria with stops in Haifa and Jerusalem. He said he would like to make that trip again and wouldn't mind if an
Israeli visa was stamped on his passport.
In his prepared text, Ghor¬ bal said that for years' the Arabs wanted peace but it was only when Sadat went to Jerusalem the "wall of suspicion" came down. "President Sadat did not go to Jerusalem to conclude a partial or separate settle¬ ment with Israel," Ghorbal said. He said Sadat went "to prove what we say. 'Here is our hand. We stretch it out in peace. Take it, but give us true, peace in return.'" Ghorbal said that unless Israel withdraws from the occupied territory it will not have security. He said for the same reason a Palestin¬ ian state is a "must" for peace.1 "To say that the Palestinians remain where they are and become na¬ tionals of their host countries is to vote against the Israeli Law of Return," he de¬ clared. "One cannot pre-
(CONTINUED ON PAGE «'
Sadat Visit To Jerusalem Has Impact On Coalition Cabinet
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By I'zi Beiiziman
JERUSALEM. (JTA) - Israel, so far, has withheld any public commitment to a change of policy on terri¬ torial issues and the Palestinian question that could be regarded as a re¬ ciprocation of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's peace intiative. But Sadat's visit to Jerusalem had a pro¬ found emotional effect on members on Premier Mena¬ chem Begin's coalition Cabi¬ net. Private and public re¬ marks by key ministers, both moderates and those known as hard-liners, indi¬ cate that they believe the Egyptian leader's desire for peace settlement is sincere and that Israel must not miss the opportunity. Several Cabinet members have expressed remarkably moderate concepts on the future of the occupied terri¬ tories in off-the-record brief¬ ings. The four members of the Democratic Movement for Change (DMS) headed by Deputy Premier Yigael Yadin have publicly favored the principle of territorial compromise on the West Bank. The same view has been indicated privately by three ministers of Likud's Liberal Party wing and two National Religious Party ministers, Yosef Burg and Aharon Abu-Hatzeira". The third ,NRP rfjinjster Zevulun
Hammer, a well-known hawk who is regarded as a spokesman for the Gusrt Emunim. said in a recent in¬ terview that Sadat's visit must lead to '"new thinking-- in Israel on various elements of the Middle East conflict He even conceded that the Palestinian problem is a legitimate subject for some new thinking. .
Defense Minister Ezer Weizman, another hawk, has enthusiastically praised Sadat and called For a greati er effort by Israel to take ad¬ vantage of the opportunity created by the Egyptian President. Foreign Minister Moshe Dayn, who has been the most active member of the Cabinet in the current ne¬ gotiating process, called for a thorough review of Israeli policy as the nation ap¬ proaches "the critical mement of truth." Dayan stressed that he was not call¬ ing yet for a revision of established positions. But his remarks were seen as re¬ flecting a private belief that official attitudes should be softened, at least on some of the outstanding issues. Dayan agreed to join Begin's government on condition • that its foreign policy re¬ main based on Security Council Resolution 242 and 338 and a promise, from Begin t'.iat as long as peace efforts continue, Israel will
(CONTINUED ON PAGE 6)
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21\v# Sarvlnfl Columbus and Central Ohio Jewish Community far Owr 50 Ymii ^A^Jv
library-,' oHj'o^HlsToniOAU- $ocVty
1 982 VELM,. AVE'. '
COLS, 0». 43211 EXOH
VOL. 55 NO. 51
DECEMBER 15,1977-TEVET5
Oe-VsXM ta tatHmt)
Supreme Court Rules Against Funds For Jewish Day Schools
By David Friedman' NEW YORK, (JTA) —The financially hard-pressed Jewish day schools in New York will not receive a hoped-for reimbursement of about $1 million from the state as a result of a ruling .j by the U.S. Supreme Court Dec. 6. The court, in a 6-3 de¬ cision ruled that a 1972 New York law that provided about $11 million to reim¬ burse parochial schools for the cost of state-mandated record-keeping and testing I services is unconstitutional. The court said the law was unconstitutional because "it will of necessity either have the primary effect of aiding religion ,. . or will result in excessive state involvement in religious affairs." Rabbi Bernard Goldenberg, asso¬ ciate director of Torah Umesorah, the National Society for Hebrew Day Schools, told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency the de¬ cision was a "bit of a blow" to the Jewish day schools. He said he could see "nothing religious" about keeping at¬ tendance records or ad- • ministration tests required by the state. Goldenberg said the day schools will now have to provide, the funds needed to carry out the tests and record-keeping required by the state, leaving less money, for scholarships lor children from poor families , and putting more of a finan¬ cial burden on'the parents of students. He noted one yeshiva in Queens closed re¬ cently _and others are having severe financial trouble.
The 1972 law that was struck down was passed by the New York State Legisla¬ ture after a federal District .Court in 1972 declared uncon¬ stitutional a 1970 law provid¬ ing $28 million a year to parochial and private schools to cover record¬ keeping and testing, ex¬ penses. The district court barred payments, for the second- half of the 1971-72 school year. But the State Legislature adopted a law which permitted the schools to file claims for the second payment thus insuring its availability until the federal court decision was appealed and^decided. Two dissenters Chief justice Warren Burger , and Associate Justice William H. Rehnquist, said 4.. they believed that a decision by the Supreme Court in 1973 upholding the right of Penn¬ sylvania to make similar payments to private schools until the court had acted on the constitutionality af-the" enabling legislation should', have applied in the New : York case. Associate Justice
' ' ' r I (CONTINUED ON PAGE j)l
I
Egyptian Ambassador Addresses Jewish Audience On Mid-East
Hanukah Party Held For Immigrants
The New Americans Committee of Jewish Family Service sponsored a Hanukkah party for Soviet immi¬ grant families on .Sunday, Dec. 4. The party was planned by Mrs. Barry (Hyah) Kaufman, Mrs. Henry (Leslie) Rogosih, and Mrs. Samuel (Susan) Portman who chairs the JFS New American Committee.
The major focus of the party was teaching about HanukkahV Cantor' Naftaly'"Lmkovslty" of" Agudas' Achim Synagogue explained the use of the Chanukiah and chanted the blessings. Rivkah Ziskind explained the story of Hanukkah and related other customs such as the dreidl. The program ended with the serving of refreshments, including latkes.
The party was held at The Jewish Center which do¬ nated their facilities. The JFS New-Americans refugee resettlement program is financied by the Columbus Jewish Federation,
Israel Expected To Present Substantial Proposals At Meet
TEL AVIV, (JTA) - Israeli journalists in Cairo reported Dec. 8 that the Egyptians expect Israel to come up with substantive proposals for discussion at the Cairo conference open¬ ing this week so that agree¬ ments can'be achieved there to be formalized later at a Geneva conference. In¬ formed Egyptian sources have indicated that the Israeli delegation is ex: pected to bring detailed maps along with- their pro¬ posals. Yousouf el-Siba, edi¬ tor of the semi-official Egyp¬ tian daily Al Aharm, told the Maariv correspondent that Israel and Egypt, should go
to Geneva "only to sign what was agreed before. "n)uier Egyptian sources agreed that it would be best if all outstanding problems were resolved before going to Geneva. There may be a similar .view'among Israeli officials, Defense Minister Ezer Weizman is expected to submit a compendium of 'Israel's' * security - .require-,
ments and a list of options and alternatives at the next Cabinet meeting. These are intended to form the basis of compromises that Israel will- offer at the Cairo talks.
Several Defense Ministry teams haye been working on the security aspects of a pos-. sible peace settlement not only with Egypt but as they apply to Israel's other neigh¬ bors. These include freedom of navigation in interna¬ tional waters, the future of Sharm el-Sheikh, the ap¬ proaches to the ' Raffah salient, Israel's presence on the West Bank and the em¬ placement of early warning systems. It was learned that some of Weizman's ideas grew out of the talks he had with President Anwar Sadat and his aides during their visit to Jerusalem Nov. 20- 21. Weizman himself has re¬ mained silent oaall defense and foreign affairs policies. Premier Menachem Begin has asked all of his ministers to refrain from', any^ public \\\\\ (C9ntinui?d;on PAQ^«5)
By David Friedman (Copyright, 1977, JTA, Inc.)
NEW YORK, (JTA) - Ashraf Ghorbal, the Egyp¬ tian Ambassador to , the United States, went before an audience of Jewish con¬ gregational and rabbinic leaders Dec. 7 and told them that peace in the Middle East requires security not only for Israel but for the Arab states too. He said Israeli withdrawal from the occupied territories and the creation of a Palestinian state there is necessary for Arab security. Ghorbal made his statement in a speech before the board of directors of the Synagogue Council of America (SCA) at the Carnegie Endowment Center for Peace, the first time he or any other Arab ambassador had spoken be¬ fore an American Jewish group. '
Rabbi Henry Siegman, the SCA's executive vice-presi¬ dent who introduced the 4-EJXB-iiaR^envoy.. said he jiad been friendswith many other American Jews, including Rabbi Alexander Schindler, .chairman of the Conference of Presidents of. Major American Jewish Organiza¬ tions. The Egyptian Ambas¬ sador said that he met with American Jewish leaders and was appearing before the SCA not to turn them against Israel but because he felt that as Americans and Jews they were im¬ portant leaders of public opinion and he wanted them to understand the Arab posi¬ tion in order to help promote peace in the Mideast.
Ghorbal received standing ovations from the more than 100 persons that jammed the meeting room when he ent¬ ered, when he was intro¬ duced and when he finished his speech. He was also warmly applauded when he began to speak again after he was interrupted toward the close of his address by two youths shouting "Sadat is a Nazi. Sadat is a fraud." One of the two, Victor Van- cier, of New York, almost reached the podium before he and his companion, Randy Medoff, of Hartsdale, N.Y., were ejected. The two, who said they belonged to a recently formed ad hoc group called Jewish Com¬ mittee of Concern, waited outside for Ghorbal to leave to again shout at him. Asked by a reporter for his reac¬ tion, Ghorbal commented, "No one has a monopoly on extremists.", In continuing his talk after the two were ^ejected, Ghorbal depar^d.
from his text to say "If I touched the sensitivities of some, I hope it is understood my coming here is meant to stretch a hand of peace and' not a hand of war."
The dimiriutive*52-year-old Ambassador said that Egyp¬ tian President Anwar Sadat does not need any defense. "We seek' not to destroy Israel, we are at odds with our. Arab brothers because we seek peace with Israel," he declared. He said the is¬ sue is not politics "but to educate people to live -in peace and harmony." Ghor¬ bal said that when former Israeli Premier Golda Meir told Sadat she wants to see peace in her lifetime she spoke "for all in the Middle East who haveknown war." Ghorbal noted that in 1945 he took a trip by train and bus' from Egypt to Lebanon and Syria with stops in Haifa and Jerusalem. He said he would like to make that trip again and wouldn't mind if an
Israeli visa was stamped on his passport.
In his prepared text, Ghor¬ bal said that for years' the Arabs wanted peace but it was only when Sadat went to Jerusalem the "wall of suspicion" came down. "President Sadat did not go to Jerusalem to conclude a partial or separate settle¬ ment with Israel," Ghorbal said. He said Sadat went "to prove what we say. 'Here is our hand. We stretch it out in peace. Take it, but give us true, peace in return.'" Ghorbal said that unless Israel withdraws from the occupied territory it will not have security. He said for the same reason a Palestin¬ ian state is a "must" for peace.1 "To say that the Palestinians remain where they are and become na¬ tionals of their host countries is to vote against the Israeli Law of Return," he de¬ clared. "One cannot pre-
(CONTINUED ON PAGE «'
Sadat Visit To Jerusalem Has Impact On Coalition Cabinet
K
By I'zi Beiiziman
JERUSALEM. (JTA) - Israel, so far, has withheld any public commitment to a change of policy on terri¬ torial issues and the Palestinian question that could be regarded as a re¬ ciprocation of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's peace intiative. But Sadat's visit to Jerusalem had a pro¬ found emotional effect on members on Premier Mena¬ chem Begin's coalition Cabi¬ net. Private and public re¬ marks by key ministers, both moderates and those known as hard-liners, indi¬ cate that they believe the Egyptian leader's desire for peace settlement is sincere and that Israel must not miss the opportunity. Several Cabinet members have expressed remarkably moderate concepts on the future of the occupied terri¬ tories in off-the-record brief¬ ings. The four members of the Democratic Movement for Change (DMS) headed by Deputy Premier Yigael Yadin have publicly favored the principle of territorial compromise on the West Bank. The same view has been indicated privately by three ministers of Likud's Liberal Party wing and two National Religious Party ministers, Yosef Burg and Aharon Abu-Hatzeira". The third ,NRP rfjinjster Zevulun
Hammer, a well-known hawk who is regarded as a spokesman for the Gusrt Emunim. said in a recent in¬ terview that Sadat's visit must lead to '"new thinking-- in Israel on various elements of the Middle East conflict He even conceded that the Palestinian problem is a legitimate subject for some new thinking. .
Defense Minister Ezer Weizman, another hawk, has enthusiastically praised Sadat and called For a greati er effort by Israel to take ad¬ vantage of the opportunity created by the Egyptian President. Foreign Minister Moshe Dayn, who has been the most active member of the Cabinet in the current ne¬ gotiating process, called for a thorough review of Israeli policy as the nation ap¬ proaches "the critical mement of truth." Dayan stressed that he was not call¬ ing yet for a revision of established positions. But his remarks were seen as re¬ flecting a private belief that official attitudes should be softened, at least on some of the outstanding issues. Dayan agreed to join Begin's government on condition • that its foreign policy re¬ main based on Security Council Resolution 242 and 338 and a promise, from Begin t'.iat as long as peace efforts continue, Israel will
(CONTINUED ON PAGE 6)
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